The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.

I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey.

Steven Chu

You just never know when you're living in a golden age.

Alexander Payne

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Thomas Carlyle

How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Anne Frank

We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it - which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do, when you're talking about giant databases of information - release it to the public and then defend ourselves against the inevitable legal and political attacks.

Julian Assange

Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.

Edsger Dijkstra

Scientists have discovered that the small brave act of cooperating with another person, of choosing trust over cynicism, generosity over selfishness, makes the brain light up with quiet joy.

Natalie Angier

Remorse is impotence, it will sin again. Only repentance is strong, it can end everything.

Henry Miller

With so much information now online, it is exceptionally easy to simply dive in and drown.

Alfred Glossbrenner

When we visualize something, we establish a relationship to the thing itself, not to some mere subjective representation of it inside us.

Medard Boss

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.

Ralph Cudworth

Whatever be their degree of talents, it is no measure of their rights.

Thomas Jefferson